Yeah, I need to digest this more.

However I find myself in similar shoes, if only for the fact that almost person I can count as a friend (e.g. beyond the level of an acquaintance) is "normal" and "successful" (for some reasonable definition) and also taking SSRI or similar type medications in order to function. Those that aren't are very obviously self-medicating in some way. Is this the price of normal?

It is downright chilling. It may be that depression is an affliction of wealth, but I've had it long enough to see it as a curse you never rid yourself of.

PS: please don't go full Internet pedant and tell me about all my biases and sampling errors. That goes without saying: it's self-reported data!